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For example, in Auckland's Domain Park on 22 November 1986, Pope addressed young people of New Zealand with these words.

Dear young people of New Zealand, Jesus looks with love on each of you.

Young people of New Zealand, Jesus is with you.

W memory and identity, the Pope wonders what the terms such as homeland, nation, history, identity and Europe mean for a particular individual, like each of us, Pole or New Zealander.

John Paul made it down under to New Zealand in November 1986.

On November 24, third day of his Pacific pilgrimage to New Zealand, Pope arrived in Christchurch.

Attending was Angela Grieve, a descendant of New Zealand early Polish settlers.

Who came to New Zealand in 1882, ten years after his brother Matthew Szymanski's arrival here in 1872 from the Pomeranian area of Poland.

So, in 1986 we knew Pope John Paul II was going to be the first, and to date the only, Holy Father to visit Aotearoa, New Zealand.